“BY GOD THE MOTHER, DO YOU MEAN MARY?”

I often talk to random people to see if they’ve heard of God the Mother and share the good news with them, if they haven’t. But what I often get is, “Oh yea, Mary, right?”

No.

The Virgin Mary is NOT God the Mother.

I’m not sure why people automatically think that Mary is God. I must confess that growing up Catholic, I did worship Mary out of ignorance. But when someone asked me if I had ever heard of God the Mother, I did not automatically assume it was Mary. In any case, Mary is not God the Mother.

And this is why.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty.

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us…God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Some six billion years ago, God created the earth from nothingness. There were no humans, nothing. Only God. And at that time it was only God creating mankind – God the Father and God the Mother.

God existed in the beginning.

Then some billions of years later…Mary was born. She was God’s creation.

Matthew 1:18 This is how Jesus the Messiah was born. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. But before the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit.

God chose Mary to give birth to Jesus Christ in order to fulfill the prophecies in the Old Testament:

Matthew 1:22 All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet: “Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.'”

To fulfill his prophecy that God must come to the earth as a man, he had to be born be born through a woman. But just because Mary was the woman whom God chose, it does not automatically make her a deity. Otherwise, Christ, who came to se the example for his people, would have shown us the example of praising and worshipping Mary. However, what did he teach his disciples?

Matthew 12:46 As Jesus was speaking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. Someone told Jesus, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, and they want to speak to you.” Jesus asked, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” Then he pointed to his disciples and said, “Look, these are my mother and brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!”

Mary is not a deity. Mary is not God. She is simply a woman whom God chose to give birth to Jesus Christ.

The Catholic Church worships Mary and teaches followers to worship her, even kneeling in front of her statue and praying to her asking for forgiveness of sins.

It is not Biblical to worship a creation of God with the claim that she is the mother of God, or even confusing her with God the Mother.

Another reason why Mary is not God the Mother…

Jesus is prophesied to come in the last days with his bride:

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and let us give honor to him. For the time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb [Christ], and his bride has prepared herself.

So if Mary is God the Mother, the wife of the Lamb (again, Christ), does that mean she should marry her own son? That’s pretty ridiculous.

Mary is not God the Mother. Christ did not teach us to worship her, neither did the apostles of the Early Church, Peter, John, Paul, even worship her.

So how did the church start worshipping Mary?

The veneration of the images of the Virgin Mary in Catholicism has its roots in ancient Babylonian religion, not in the early Church.

Under the influence of Babylon, this worship of “mother and child” spread to other ancient countries. People in the area that is now Germany worshipped the goddess Hertha with a child in her arms.

Indian relics show the goddess Indrani carrying a child in her arms.

These ancient pagan customs spread to Rome and infiltrated the Roman Church. From there on, the worship of pagan goddesses was now transferred to the worship of the Virgin Mary holding Baby Jesus.

Leviticus 26:1 “Do not make idols or set up carved images, or sacred pillars, or sculptured stones in your land so you may worship them.”

Even though people may worship Mary, this is to a Biblical teaching. She is just a creation of God and the one God chose to give birth to Christ in the flesh for the fulfillment of prophecies, because after all, he was not just going to *poof* and appear.